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The Common Core State Standards provide a consistent, clear
understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and
parents know what they need to do to help them. The standards are
designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the
knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college
and careers. With American students fully prepared for the future, our
communities will be best positioned to compete successfully in the
global economy.

Common Core State Standards Resource Page

What is Common Core?

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts and for Mathematics were adopted by South Carolina as its standards in English and Mathematics in July of 2010. The standards will be fully implemented in the school year 2014-15.

Below you will find a Power Point developed by the State Department detailing writing instruction based on the Common Core Standards.

Achievethecore.org- This site offers several Math and ELA tools you can 'steal' from them! They offer a 12 page packet for Math that includes content emphases by clusters (major clusters, supporting clusters, and additional clusters). There is also an ELA guide to creating questions for close analytic reading (click on link at the bottom of the page).

SMART Exchange

Visit SMART Exchange to view SMART Notebook lessons correlated to the CCSS. To find the lessons, choose Common Core State Standards in the Standards box, select the grade and choose ELA or Math. You are then able to scroll down through the standards to view the resources.

Streamline Videos

As part of the CCSS system of support, the SCDE has created Implementing Common Core State Standards for South Carolina, a video series to assist District Implementation Teams. The District Implementation Team in each district should use the information provided in Implementing Common Core State Standards for South Carolina to inform the district’s plan for ensuring that district instructional staff is prepared to implement the CCSS during the 2013-14 school year.

Video Resources

We have found some GREAT videos on Common Core from TeachingChannel. They provide some background information on the Math and ELA Common Core Standards, but also provide more insight on practices and strategies to use upon implementation.

Archived Live Events - The SCDE is placing documentation from trainings on this page. You can find PowerPoints, links to Streamline videos, and handouts here. Click on a month to view those trainings' resources.

CCSS ELA Placemat Format - The SCDE created a placemat format for the common core math standards. We have tried to do the same for the ELA standards. This format condenses all the standards onto one page.

Archived Live Events - The SCDE is placing documentation from trainings on this page. You can find PowerPoints, links to Streamline videos, and handouts here. Be sure to click on a month to view those trainings' resources.

It can be helpful to better understand the CCSSM by breaking them into Concepts - Terminal Objectives - and then into Actions. The terminal objectives are what the student is expected to learn and the actions are how they will reach those objectives.

Hyperlinked version of the math standards - This version of the math standards has hyperlinks within the document so the reader can electronically navigate the standards with fluidity. Creator/Lead Author: Bill McCallum.

S²TEM Centers SC Support Pagefor Common Core State Standards Implementation - The S²TEM Centers SC CCSSM Implementation Team provides quality professional learning experiences and support resources for educators preparing for implementation of the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics.

The S²TEM Centers SC At-a-Glance Transition Documents were created in Spring 2011 in response to a request by district leaders for a quick overview of the magnitude of the changes as South Carolina moves from the 2007 SC Academic Standards for Mathematics to the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM).

S²TEM Centers SC At-a-Glance Transition Documents are currently available for K-8 mathematics. You can click on the grade level listed below to view the transition document for that grade.

Tools for the Common Core State Standardsis a website maintained by Bill McCallum - one of the lead authors of the Common Core Math standards. There are a number of helpful tools at this site, including the progressions. The progressions elaborate on, provide background knowledge, and give examples for each of the standards in a domain as the content in the domain grows from one grade to the next.

Listed below are the progressions for middle school and elementary math that have been posted at this site. These can be a valuable resource to teachers as they begin to incorporate the CC standards in their lessons.

Smarter Balanced is guided by the belief that a balanced, high-quality assessment system—including formative, interim, and summative components—can improve teaching and learning by providing information and tools for teachers and schools to help students succeed. Timely and meaningful assessment information can offer specific information about areas of performance so that teachers can follow up with targeted instruction, students can better target their own efforts, and administrators and policymakers can more fully understand what students know and can do, in order to guide curriculum and professional development decisions.

Smarter Balanced assessments make use of computer adaptive technology, which is more precise and efficient than fixed-form testing. Teachers, principals, and parents can receive results from computerized assessments in weeks, not months. Faster results mean that teachers can use the information from optional interim assessments throughout the school year to differentiate instruction and better meet the unique needs of their students.

Smarter Balanced assessments will go beyond multiple-choice questions and include short constructed response, extended constructed response, and performance tasks that allow students to complete an in-depth project that demonstrate analytical skills and real-world problem solving.

SBAC Sample Items

Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) has released sample items that teachers and districts can use as part of their preparation in the transition to SBAC related assessments.